Placebo-controlled

Pronunciation: /pɫəˈsiboʊ- kənˈtɹoʊɫd/

Placebo-controlled (adj)

  1. Used in research where one group gets a real treatment and another gets a dummy treatment with no active effect.
  2. Describes a study design that compares outcomes against a group receiving an inactive substitute to reduce bias.

Placebo-controlled (adjective)

Examples

  • The placebo-controlled trial compared the drug with a dummy treatment.
  • Researchers ran a placebo-controlled trial to test the new medicine.